40 citations · 62 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.GT2026
Opening the Strategic Pandora Box: Conditional Transaction Mechanisms
Yonatan Sompolinsky, Ori Newman, Xintong Wang +1
Conditional transaction engines (CTEs) execute conditional instructions for offline users. This paper formalizes the mechanism-design problem within each engine invocation. A condi…
cs.CR2016★ 40 cited
Bitcoin's Security Model Revisited
Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar
We revisit the fundamental question of Bitcoin's security against double spending attacks. While previous work has bounded the probability that a transaction is reversed, we show t…
cs.CR2015★ 22 cited
Optimal Selfish Mining Strategies in Bitcoin
Ayelet Sapirshtein, Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar
Bitcoin is a decentralized crypto-currency, and an accompanying protocol, created in 2008. Bitcoin nodes continuously generate and propagate blocks---collections of newly approved…